Hello there! We’re here with a special Saturday post for you on our Crop & Create Cardmaking weekend! Not only did we want to share the winners of our Spring Issue Challenge Week, but we also wanted to share a brand with you that we love, and are using their products a lot during our cardmaking weekend!
The handy tool that we’re about to show you will cut down on smudges and inky fingers, and we all love that idea, right!? Let’s find out more about The Ink Stand!
Hey friends! I am so happy to be here to introduce you to The Ink Stand! What started as a desire for me to upgrade my ink cubes to full-size ink pads turned into collaborating with my husband to produce these fun products.
The original Ink Stand can hold 6 ink cubes and their lids. It also comes with rubber feet on the bottom to keep it from sliding around your desk. We have now released an additional SEVEN versions of ink stands to accommodate the various sizes and shapes of ink pads available on the market! Chances are, if you have an ink pad, we have an Ink Stand for it!
Every Ink Stand is manufactured and packaged by my husband and I from our home in Indiana and we are so thankful for all of the support we have received from this wonderful industry!
We would love to give away an Ink Stand of choice to one lucky SCT community member! To enter to win, leave a comment on this blog post, telling us what brand of ink you love the most! Comments will close at midnight on Wednesday, March 29th and a winner will be randomly selected and announced here on the SCT blog on March 31st. Good luck! Be sure to follow The Ink Stand at the links below for more updates and product info!
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We are so excited to share some of the wonderful projects that were submitted during our Spring Issue Challenge Week!
Challenge #1: Sketch
For the first day of our challenge week, Wendy Sue Anderson challenged us to use this awesome sketch to create with a prize of a $25 gift certificate to the SCT shop!
We loved seeing these sketchy projects in our inbox!
card by Greta
layout by Nelya
created by Maria
The winner of our sketch challenge is:
Congratulations, Jessica! Your embellished grid layout is just beautiful!
Challenge #2: Colour
This gorgeous colour scheme is what we challenged you with for our second challenge, with a chance to win an Ink Stand Mini and a Let’s Stamp Together January 2023 kit!
Let’s take a look at a few of the beautiful designs we received:
created by Greta
created by Indiartworks
created by Stephanie
created by Jessica
The winner of challenge #2 is:
Congratulations, Angela! What a gorgeous card design in these pretty hues!
Challenge #3: Mood Board
Our third challenge included a fun mood board with a prize of a year-long subscription to the magazine! The submissions were so varied and wonderful! Here are just a few:
card by Tatiana
card by Kendra
card by Cindy
layout by Stephanie
And the winner is:
Congratulations, Tatiana! What a beautiful Easter layout!
Challenge #4: Punches
Our fourth and final challenge from guest Sarah DeGuzman for the chance to win our February 2023 SCT Sampler was to use border punches! These crafters pulled out their punches and got to work!
card by Angela
layout by Jessica
layout by Mandi
And the winner of this challenge is:
Congratulations, Maryann! This card created with punches is so inspiring!
We want to thank each one of you for your submissions and for celebrating the release of our spring issue with us! Winners, please email meghann@scrapbookandcards.com to claim your prizes! We will see you on Monday for more inspiration, ideas, and insight!
Love seeing all the submissions. Congrats to the winners!
The Ink Stand is such a great tool. My Concord & 9th cubes fit perfectly. Love then because they are so juicy and blend like butter.
My favorite ink is StazOn. It dries super quickly and I can use it on anything.
Would love to own one of these ink stands!
My favorite go to ink is Gina K Design. I have all her colors but not ink stand.
These prizes! What an awesome publication and so generous!
Beautiful challenge entries! I Love the ink stands! My favorite ink is either Distress Oxides or Catherine Pooler!
Congratulations to all of the winners!!! Having ink stands to fit so many ink pads is genius! Thank you for creating that for us to use with all of our options!
Concord & 9th inks are great
I don’t really have a favorite. I use Hero Arts,
Taylored Expressions, and Stampin’ Up.
Love the small inks. Much easier and less
work to get multiple colors on one stamping.
Happy Birthday. Enjoy your cake.
thanks for sharing.
The brand I have the most of is Distress ink, but I am enjoying many others as i come into contact with them. :D
Love the Ink Stand. I heard Taylor say something about having a teal one made for them…oh be still my heart.
Congratulations to all of the winners! I enjoy using my hero arts ink pads.
Congratulations to all the winners!! All of the submissions were amazing! The Ink Stand would be such a neat tool to have when using my inks!! I’m in love with Concord & 9th inks! They blend so smoothly and the juiciness is off the charts!!!
Congrats to all the challenge winners! This stand is on my wish list – my favorite brands are Gina, taylored expressions and concord & 9th – I can’t choose just one! lol!
I would love to try one of these ink stands! I have several go-to inks. I have started to collect the Concord & 9th ink cubes. (Brilliant marketing with SCT’s crop & create, since that’s where I first found them with my class kit!). My oxides are well-loved too. I have a variety of colors in new (and old) CTMH inks as well.
Beautiful cards! Congratulations to the winners! I like the Altenew and Pinkfresh inks.
Thank you for showing my entries! I had such fun making my cards. Congrats to the winners! Would love to win an ink stand. I have a huge collection of ink pads in all different shapes & sizes. I tend to use my PTI or Altenew ink cubes a lot, but for ink blending I almost always use Distress Oxides. Thanks for the chance to win!
The Ink Stands are fabulous. I use Gina K inks for most of my stamping projects. The wide range of colors fills all my needs, and they are great inks.
Thank you sharing my layouts! My Favorite ink is Distress Oxide inks!
I love the Lawn Fawn inks.
Beautiful entries and winning projects!
The Ink Stand looks so handy! I’d love to try one out! I have a few kinds of ink pads and my favorites are the Distress inks!
Distress Oxide is my favorite ink.
Great cards – I especially like Greta’s ‘A Birthday Wish for You” & Cindy’s ‘Get Well Soon’! Congrats to all the winners!!As I am new to card making, my ink collection is rather basic and I use them mainly for stamping images. My hope is to get into ink blending – my first choice of ink would be Gina K, then eventually try the Tim Holtz Distress Oxides.
Love my ink stands. Such a great tool. I am really loving Gina k ink right now but my heart will always be oxide girl
Congrats to the winners! What a bunch of creative minds. Thanks for a chance to win, too. :D
Loving Gina K and Taylored Expressions ink cubes the best
My favorite ink is Pink Fresh. Thanks for the chance to win.
I am a fan of Ranger Inks but loving the colours in the Gina K videos this weekend in the card event so will have to try those!
My go to inks are Gina K and of course Tim Holtz distress inks. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love Lawn Fawn inks!
Wow! Beautiful creations!!!
My favorite ink is Distress Oxides
The ink stand is so amazing. I need to get some for my bigger inks
My favorite ink is stampin up ink. I’d love to have an ink stand for my inks!
i love them all unfortunately.Gina K and Pink Fresh and Concord and 9th are the current top 3 .I love how you support so many crafters too
I am a LOOONG way from a raft store.
Majority of my ink pads are Stampin’ Up, with a few Kraftin’ Kimmie, and
Staz on thrown in!
The submissions and winners projects are outstanding!
The Ink Stand is a wonderful idea!
Congratulations to the winners!! I would love to win one of the ink stands…everyone in the SCT CCD Cardmaking is using them!
I love different brands of inks for different results and effects. Congrats to all the winners on the lovely, Spring inspired entries. So much inspiration.
Congratulations to all the winners. Beautiful creations! I would love to have a ink pad holder for my Gina K ink cubes! Thank you for the chance to win one!
That looks cool
My favorite inks are my distress oxides. Thank you for the chance to win!
I have two favorite inks, Gina k designs and taylored expressions. They are my go too! Congratulations to all the winners.
So many beautiful examples of great talent
Wow! Congratulations to this small business for filling a void in the industry. Hero Arts brand is my favourite ink. The challenge submissions are fabulous.
Ink Stands would definitely reduce the number of “incidents “ in my craft room.
I love the Distress inks.
I love the Gina K inks! I have the cubes and would love to try the ink stand.
Thanks for bringing the Ink stand to my attention! Looks awesome!
Congrats to all the winners! Those are some lovely projects y’all shared.
re “what brand of ink you love the most?” I do a lot of stamping and really love inks of all kinds! That said, I have a strong preference for pigment inks. I do use hybrid inks, too. Tsukineko Brilliance is my favorite, but I stopped buying it because it is really hard to find reinkers for all the colors. Lack of reinkers is a deal breaker for me. My second favorite is Distress Oxide. I have the most Distress Oxides in my collection and use those most frequently. I do also use dye inks sometimes — my favorite dye inks are Distress Ink, Catherine Pooler, Altenew and Pinkfresh Studio.
The ink stand looks so cool. My favorite inks are Gina K in the mini cubes.
Currently loving both distress inks!!!!
Love the entries for the challenges – so much creativity! I tend to use CTMH, Gina K or Quick Quotes chalk inks the most, depending on the project.